Why did Xu Rampant take the risk and lead the exhausted army to attack again? Why does he care so much about Qu Xia?

Just because Quxia is a narrow pass, in some places, two people are not even allowed to go side by side; And it is such a narrow passage, but there are hundreds of peaks on both sides.

In other words, as long as you can occupy the high places on both sides, then you can completely block the enemy and let hundreds of thousands of people be trapped outside Quxia!

Of course, they can make a detour, but if they abandon Quxia and go to the Yangping Ancient Road, it will take a few more months to walk, and by then, I am afraid that the 100,000 people besieging Zhiyang will have already starved to death.

As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses move, the grain and grass go first; However, the special topography of Quxia makes it impossible to act according to this common sense. The large grain trucks could not pass through Quxia at all, and the more than 100,000 people besieging Zhiyang relied on the soldiers in the rear to carry their shoulders and slowly transported bags of grain.

Moreover, Xu Rampant guessed that the reason why the enemy army took the difficult Quxia instead of the wide Pingyang Ancient Road was not just to take a shortcut and climb to Zhiyang earlier. If that's just the case, the best decision should be: let some people take the Quxia Trail, and let the large army take the Yangping Ancient Trail.

In general, even if Quxia is a shortcut road, but after all, it is narrow, allowing hundreds of thousands of people to cross together, although it is faster at the beginning, but it will take a long, long time to fully assemble in the end.

Judging from the current situation of the enemy's troops converging like a trickling stream, they are bound to go to Quxia; If you just want to achieve the military goal of coming to Zhiyang as soon as possible and coercing Zhiyang, 50,000 people will cross Quxia and reach the sky, and there is really no need for hundreds of thousands of people.

There is a high probability that the Yangping Ancient Road will not be able to go at all!

Yes, the reason why Xu Rampant is eighty percent sure is that the five achievements lie in this. He remembered that when he walked along the Yangping Ancient Road half a year ago, the bridge across the Turbulent River was broken!

The Yangping Ancient Road is easy to walk, but the bridge is broken. In the final analysis, it was the good governance of the Jokhang state, and after six or seven hundred years of wind and frost, it was common to break a bridge.

If the enemy is well prepared and has engineers, he may be able to drive another bridge; But apparently, they were not very well prepared.

The mountain roads were rough and the ranks were bumpy. Si Shaokong and Xu Ryan rode a high-headed horse and walked side by side.

Both of them were silent, one bowed his head and the other looked up; Although there are differences in movements, the demeanor is contemplative.

"Lao Xu, I heard you say, you still have a brother in Zhiyang?" After a long time, Si Shaokong took the lead in breaking the silence, raised his head slightly, and looked at Xu Yan.

"yes, a hairy boy." Xu Yan said this, but there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, "I heard the soldiers who broke through that Zhang Pi entrusted the entire Zhiyang City to him before he died. ”

"Oh" Si Shaokong nodded, hesitated, and asked lightly: "Your brother, have you ever fought?" ”

"Nope"

"Okay" Si Shaokong agreed, and then said no more, but it was visible to the naked eye that the look on his face was a little heavier.

He has a heavy truth of his own.

Even if he and Xu Yan can hold the mouth of Quxia and block hundreds of thousands of troops, what will happen after that?

The 100,000 enemy troops besieging Zhiyang still existed. If they are cut off from the rear, they must panic at first, and then they will find a way to open the Quxia Pass.

Si Shaokong is not afraid of this, the Quxia Road is narrow, and they are condescending, with the help of rolling stones and the like, they can resist before and after; However, after resisting, after the enemy breaks through, the various actions he will make, although he expected, are also beyond his control.

After the 100,000 people besieging Zhiyang failed to break through, they would immediately fall into a terrible situation with no food to eat, and out of self-preservation and for survival, they would definitely attack Zhiyang like crazy.

If Zhiyang resists, then the 100,000 people will abandon Zhiyang and pounce on the land of Kanto like wolves, plundering on a large scale. At that time, Fan Chuanjun will never sit idly by, and if he doesn't want to fight, he will have to fight.

And he and Xu Rant, after the siege of Zhiyang is lifted, send a message to point out a way to the people in the city, and let the people in the city evacuate as soon as possible - of course, considering the people's drag, the only ones who can evacuate are probably the soldiers in the city.

After Zhiyang's evacuation was completed, although it was difficult, he and Xu Yan could also retreat under the cover of the mountain.

This is the ideal scenario.

But will things go so well?

Si Shaokong's worry was not on the part between him and Xu Rampant, what he was afraid of was that Zhiyang couldn't bear it.

Once Zhiyang City is breached, the 100,000 tiger food army will get some supplies in the city; Even if Xu Rampant said that there was not much surplus food in the city, don't forget that there are still tens of thousands of people in it.

Those people, at critical times, can also... Make rations!

As disgusting and disgusting as it sounds, this has happened more than once in history.

As long as the 100,000 people were given a chance to breathe and repair, they could completely go back and clean up the remnants of Si Shaokong and Xu Yan; Even if you can't hit it, intercept the retreat, and consume people to death.

The key to this game, this gamble, is in Zhiyang!

"A hairy boy who has never fought, a small city with little food, and a group of weakly equipped brigades, can they resist?"

Si Shaokong asked himself, but there was no answer.

"You must carry it!" He thought so, then turned his head and looked at Xu Yan; Although Xu Yan's expression was calm, Si Shaokong understood that he and himself... It's the same idea.

Zhiyang! Zhiyang!

A small city founded 400 years ago, it was not famous in the years of stability, but in the troubled times, it became the focus of this war.

The moon is dark and the wind is high, Xu Sheng is standing in the empty courtyard; Behind him was a simple mourning hall, with a few candles emitting a faint glow and a few white silk sticks fluttering in the wind.

Even in such a situation, he couldn't see the old man's rotten corpse in the coffin, exposing the corpse in the desolate court. He couldn't bear it, even if he was hasty, he still set up a mourning hall and kept filial piety sincerely.

The sky is bright and the moon is bright, and the wind and cold are sparse.

Xu Sheng looked up at the sky, and there was only endless sorrow in his heart.

"Oh my God, why do I always bring calamity, where there is bloodshed and sacrifice? What do I have to do, what can I do to change this absurdity? If I am the Destiny One, what kind of mission am I going to fulfill? ”

"God, please give me an answer, do you have a conscience, are you evil or good?"

"Can't I not be this pathetic 'Destiny'?"

Xu Sheng asked questions one after another, but the sky was silent, only silent; Only the wind, which is stronger.

As soon as his tears came out, they were wiped away and dried by the wind; It was as if the wind could not see him crying.

"Woo-woo-woo-"

There was a mournful scream, and I couldn't tell whether it was a sobbing or a howl of the wind; Perhaps, a bit of both......

After a long time, Xu Sheng regained his composure, and even if he didn't want to, he had to take responsibility; Even if he can't, he will do his best.

"Old man, maybe your kindness, I can only repay it in the next life."

Xu Sheng stomped back to the mourning hall, kneeling on the ground with "poof", and "poof" three rings; He was thinking at this time: There are too many people he owes in this life, and he doesn't know if he can pay it back in the next life.

After kowtowing, Xu Sheng left, he really couldn't stay in this sad place for too long, there were too many things waiting for him to deal with.

The old man was not buried, Xu Sheng knew that he would not let the old man be buried in the soil like this.

Although he didn't know how long the old man had been dead, looking at the degree of preservation of the body, Xu Sheng guessed that it would not be long; He wants the old man to be like everyone else, put it for three days, choose a feng shui treasure place, and bury it in peace like that.

This is the only thing Xu Sheng can do, although in the current situation, it is a little out of place, but he must do it.

"Since ancient times, the 'Destiny of Heaven' have been 'sad people', and they are all sentimental 'girls'."

In the west of Zhiyang City, in an inconspicuous corner, an old Taoist priest held a wine jug and said drunkenly. Behind him, three middle-aged men in ragged clothes were looking around in a panic, cautiously glancing at the old man.

They never imagined that in the blink of an eye, they would arrive at such a completely strange place; And, after daylight observation, this is not a good place.

"God, hehe" The old Taoist priest poured another mouthful, looked up at the sky, pouted and said: "This world is not under the control of some ethereal God, that person has already arranged everything, in the world where you and I live, he is the 'sky'." ”

"Huh!?"

Although it was not the first time that the last three had heard the old Taoist priest say something shocking and shocking, this time, the old Taoist priest seemed to be saying it to them.

"The Taoist is right."

"The fairy has a point."

Two of the three people in the back were clever, and they immediately accosted each other, with flattery.

The other person also wanted to say something, but was stopped by the old Taoist priest as soon as he raised his hand.

"I don't know what your answer is, did I talk to you? Can you understand? If you dare to talk more, Lao Tzu will slap you outside the city and let those soldiers stab you a few times. The old Taoist priest was full of displeasure, swayed and walked to the three people, lifted the wine gourd, and pointed it at the heads of the three people.

It can be seen with the naked eye that there are blood-red bumps the size of a baby's fist on the top of the heads of the three people, and one person, although he is a bandit, has tears in his eyes.

"Grandpa Fairy, what did you just say? What's outside the city? Even though he was beaten, one of them mustered up the courage and asked cautiously.

"Didn't I say that? Soldiers, 100,000 soldiers. ”

"Good boy!"

The man screamed and sat down on the ground.

"Grandpa Fairy, please send us back, I'll kowtow to you." Another man was crying and pleading, his head hitting the ground, and there was a "thump".

"The shabby clothes are good, and the wine is more leisurely. I won't go to the gods to invite guests, and I don't want the emperor to give way. If it weren't for the affairs of the world, this little life would have been abandoned. ”

The old Taoist priest ignored them, shook his head and sang, and walked away on his own.

The three men looked at each other and looked at each other. In the end, I had no choice but to follow the footsteps of the old Taoist priest......